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| 10 | 186 | She had been View more quotes about aroused">aroused from sleep, not permitted to veil herself, and instructed to prepare and serve black wine. |
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| 10 | 183 | "Yes, Master," she said. |
| 10 | 184 | She lowered her eyes and, taking the tray with black wine and sugars, rose gracefully to her feet, backed away, turned, and left the room. |
| 10 | 185 | She moved sweetly. |
| 10 | 186 | She had been aroused from sleep, not permitted to veil herself, and instructed to prepare and serve black wine. |
| 10 | 187 | This she had done. |
| 10 | 188 | At the interior corners of her eyes had been the signs of sleep; she had yawned like a cat when kneeling to one side; her face, and her mouth, had revealed the heavy, sweet lassitude of the beautiful woman who is weary; when she had left, though she held herself erect, as an embonded girl must, there had been a slow, felicitous swing to her gait, graceful, languid, somnolent, subtly betraying the weariness of her beauty, awakened and forced so early to serve. |
| 10 | 189 | Her haunches flowed beneath the silk, and then she had disappeared. |